Re: cleanups with long-term benefits (was Re: [PATCH] schemas: Add vim modeline)

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 03.08.2020 um 18:03 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben:
> Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:
> > This means the two parts might be considered separately:
> >
> > - replacing single-quote with double-quote strings
> >
> > - replacing # comments with //
> 
> If all we want is decent editor support out of the box, then rename to
> .py, and drop the modelines.  No merge conflicts, no git-blame
> pollution.
> 
> To make the .py files actual Python, additionally rename the bool
> literals.  Much, much less churn than massaging all strings or all
> comments.

I guess I could get behind this one. File renames still have a cost, but
it feels like it wouldn't be absurdly high at least.

And that you actually occasionally paste schema parts into real Python
code suggests that there would be even a small benefit in addition to
the good syntax highlighting out of the box.

I fully expect that we'd keep our existing parser instead of using an
actual Python parser, because the existing code (a) exists and (b) is
probably simpler than the resulting code.

Kevin